A homeless man rummaging through trash for bottles in a Bronx park found a duffel bag carrying three military weapons on Friday. The weapons were among the 16 guns stolen from a Massachusetts Army reserve center, according to the New York Post.
The man, whose identity has not been revealed, found the stolen guns: an M-4 rifle and two Sig Sauer M11 9mm pistols, in Mullaly Park near Yankee stadium and handed them over to authorities.
The weapons, including six M-4 assault rifles and 10 pistols, were found stolen from the Lincoln Stoddard Center in Worcester on Nov. 15, as HNGN previously reported.
A 34-year-old former Army reservist, James Walker Morales, who was out on bail for allegedly raping a child, was arrested and charged on Wednesday in connection with the theft after his DNA was found at the crime scene and CCTV cameras placed him at the reserve center, according to CBS Boston.
Morales broke into the center through a kitchen window and then gained access to the weapons vault using a power saw and a crowbar. He was wearing a monitoring bracelet due to his sexual assault charge and the monitoring data from the device showed that he was at the armory on the eve of Nov. 14, a day before the weapons were discovered stolen. Morales got rid of the device a day after the heist, according to investigators.
